Service Functions

iWay Service Manager provides programmers with several service functions to simplify programming. These are static in the XD object.

Name

Description

XD.entityExpand

Given a string with XML parsible entities, such as &, replaces the entities with the actual character.

XD.entityReplace

Replaces characters in a string with their XML entity representation.

XD.hexIt

Converts a byte[] to hex representation.

XD.unHexIt

Converts a byte[] in hex representation to a byte[] in the represented characters.

XD.normalizePath

Given a file path, converts the backslashes to Java standards, and ends the path with a slash.

Note: There are also a variety of methods for constructing date strings as used by the internal components. These are explained in the Javadoc for the XD and XDTime objects.


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